Job 33 · Verse 25

Job 33:25

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Job 33:25, King James Version

Job 33:25 in other translations

BSBthen his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.
WEBHis flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
ASVHis flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; He returneth to the days of his youth.
YLTFresher is his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.
DARBYHis flesh shall be fresher than in childhood; he shall return to the days of his youth.
BBEThen his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;
WebsterHis flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he will return to the days of his youth:

What does Job 33:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 33:25-28
25-28. Effects of restoration to God's favor; literally, to Job a temporal revival; spiritually, an eternal regeneration. The striking words cannot be restricted to their temporal meaning, as used by Elihu (1Pe 1:11, 12). his flesh shall be fresher than a child's--so Naaman, 2Ki 5:14, spiritually, Joh 3:3-7.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's - He shall be born a new creature. He shall return to the days of his youth - He shall be born again, and become a child of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 33:19-28

Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will be of great use for our getting good from sickness, in and by which God speaks to men. Pain is the fruit of sin; yet, by the grace of God, the pain of the body is often made a means of good to the soul. When afflictions have…

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Job 33:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

רֻֽטֲפַ֣שׁru.ta.Fashit grows freshH7375
בְּשָׂר֣וֹbe.sa.Roflesh hisH1320
מִנֹּ֑עַרmi.No.'armore than youthH5290
יָ֝שׁ֗וּבya.Shuvhe returnsH7725
לִימֵ֥יli.Meito [the] days ofH3117
עֲלוּמָֽיו\׃'a.lu.Mavyouth<s> hisH5934

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 33:25

  • Psalms 103:5

    Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

  • 2 Kings 5:14

    Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

  • Joshua 14:10-11

    And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

  • Deuteronomy 34:7

    And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

  • Job 42:16

    After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

  • Hosea 2:15

    And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
His flesh.
2Ki 5:14
a child's. Heb. childhood. return.
42:16; De 34:7; Jos 14:10,11; Ps 103:5; Ho 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 33:24

    Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

  • Job 33:25

    His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

  • Job 33:26

    He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

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Job 33:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Enterneceráse su carne más que de niño, volverá á los días de su mocedad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Alors sa chair aura plus de fraîcheur que dans l’enfance; il reviendra aux jours de sa jeunesse;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sein Fleisch wird frischer sein als in der Jugend; er wird zurückkehren zu den Tagen seiner Jünglingskraft.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Consumpta est caro ejus a suppliciis: revertatur ad dies adolescentiæ suæ.